The assassination of the Chairman: the explosion in Kiev claimed the lives of two people

The death toll in the explosion at the building of the TV channel “espresso” in the centre of Kiev increased to two. Earlier it became known that during the attack killed a security guard of the Deputy from the Radical party Igor Mosiychuk.

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A press-the Secretary of SBU Elena Gitlyanskaya said that the second victim was a bystander. “I understand that two of the dead, that guard Mosiychuk and a local resident who was just there”, — quotes the words Galanski website of the TV channel “112 Ukraine”. She noted that other victims are in hospital, their lives are not in danger.

Attempt at the Deputy of Rada from the Radical party Igor Mosiychuk occurred on the evening of Wednesday, October 25, on the street Adam Mickiewicz editorial staff of the TV channel “espresso”. The power of the explosive device that was attached to a parked motorcycle was not less than kg in a trotyl equivalent.

The result was injured five people, including himself, he, his bodyguard and a political analyst Vitaly Bala. The bodyguard of the Deputy later died of his wounds in the hospital.

Initiated a criminal case under article “terrorist act”, the investigation will lead the security Service of Ukraine. The Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada has recovered after surgery. Mosiychuk made a statement in which he called those who are “sitting in Moscow,” the masterminds behind the attack, and the performers, in his opinion, are in Kiev. The version about “Russian trace” is also expressed by the adviser to the interior Minister of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.